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Turkn.
1.native of Turkey; (appellatively) in fidel土耳其人，突厥人；（代称）异教徒。
△As. 4. 3. 33 (32):“Why. she de-ties me. / Like Turk to Christian.”i. e. like some in-fidel challenging a Christian knight to life-and-deathcombat. 哼，她向我挑战，像土耳其人对基督徒一样。
2. heathen,infidel异教徒。
△Oth. 2. 1. 114:“Nay,itis true. or else I am a Turk. 不，是真话，否则我就是异教徒。
3. i.e. infidel. cruel and hard-hearted man,ferociousand bloodthirsty tyrant土耳其人，（借喻）异教徒，残忍无情的人，凶恶嗜血的暴君。
Turk Gregory: i.e.Pope Gregory XIII(1572-1585).who approved the Massacre of St. Bart holomew andpromised indulgence to anyone who would murderQueen Elizabeth I.hence an inveterate foe of Eng-land残暴的葛里高利，（指为当时英国人所痛恨的）教皇葛里高利十二世
△1H.IV. 5. 3. 46 (45):“Turk Gregory neverdid such deeds in arms as I have done this day.”残暴的葛里高利也没有我今天在战争中杀人这么多。
4. the Grand Turk,sultan,ruler of the Turkish empire （土耳其帝国的统治者）苏丹。
△ H. V. 5. 2. 221 (208):“that shall go to Constantinople and take the Turk bythe beard?”(Anachronism: the Turks did not obtain Constantinople till 1453,thirty-one years afterHenry’s death.)等他长大了，好跑到君士坦丁堡去揪土耳其国王的胡子吗？ (按：此语有时代错误，仅反映r当时西欧人对土耳其帝国的对立情绪。)
△1H.VI.4. 7.73:“The Turk. thattwo-and-fifty kingdoms hath,/ Writes not so tediousa style as this.”拥有五十二个王国的土耳其苏丹也没有这么大串啰唆的头衔。
Turk’s tribute: annual exaction collected from theTurkish subjects to the Sultan土耳其臣民向苏丹缴纳的贡税。
△2H.IV. 3. 2. 333 (306):“and every third word alie,duer paid to the hearer than the Turk’s tribute.”(Delays by his subjects in paying tribute due to theSultan were punished with death.)每三句话里就准有一句谎言送进听者的耳朵里，比对土耳其苏丹纳贡还要及时。 |